Adding Linux binaries to releases page? about vkquake HOT 14 CLOSED

I would prefer just a normal binary instead of something Debian/Ubuntu specific. Same as QuakeSpasm.

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I don't often do that, so please excuse me if I state this wrong: would you like tar.gz archives with the built source entirely in place?

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Why not use a MojoSetup and keep it distro neutral?

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Interesting, i'll take a look at that more today. In what I have run into with Linux packaging, man projects will offer the two most popular binary packages: .deb or .rpm. I misspoke when I said Ubuntu or Debian specific. The way you usually approach a more "universal" .deb package, is to account for the variants in debian/control, such as Depends: ffmpeg_debian | ffmpeg_ubuntu. I've also heard other "disro neutral" approaches like autopackage.

As said above, I believe other proejcts merely statically build (as per the build instructions here) and ship the .tar.gz archive. Users would, as often expected, install the run time dependencies from the Readme. These could be explicitly laid out if need be.

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From QuakeSpasm README.deps:

These binaries were compiled for x86_64-linux on a CentOS 4.8 setup.
They depend on SDL (libSDL-1.2.so.0), ogg/vorbis (libvorbis.so.0,
libogg.so.0 and libvorbisfile.so.3) and libmad (libmad.so.0).
(The sdl2 version depends on libSDL2-2.0.so.0 instead of libSDL-1.2.so)

Not a fan of all the different packaging systems just fragmenting the user base.

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Ok I'll keep the debs and RPMs in my own repo.

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@Novum , would you be at all ok with a distro-agnostic Flatpak? Beyond this, I will put the effort into making a normal binary for you.

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I will test the tar archive I just made tonight on a fresh install of Debian Jessie / SteamOS without the dependency packages installed. If successful, I will link the archive for consideration.

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I tested the below archive and steps. If this is acceptable, I will happily continue providing release binaries.

Test 1:

1. cd $HOME/
2. git clone https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake/
3. install depdencies noted in readme
4. cd vkQuake
5. make -C Quake USE_SDL2=1
6. Remove packages that provide dependencies
7. This will leave libs installed, so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmad.so.0 was removed
   8 . Try running ./vkquake from $HOME/vkQuake, it will not launch (as a test)
8. copy libs from libs/ folder to $HOME/vkQuake/ (of course these are in the root dir in the below archive)
9. Try running ./vkquake again, launches successfully.

Test 2:

1. Fresh install of SteamOS (no depds installed)
2. wget http://libregeek.org/Linux/games/vkQuake-0.50.0-latest_linux.tar.gz
3. tar -xzf vkQuake-0.50.0-latest_linux.tar.gz -C $HOME
4. cp -r id1 $HOME/vkQuake/
5. (on my end) added destop file and /usr/share/games/vkquake
6. Launch command was cd /home/desktop/vkQuake && ./vkquake

Test archive (sans id1 of course):

http://packages.libregeek.org/linux-binaries/stable/vkquake-0.50-latest_linux.tar.gz

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I guess so. Is there a way that I can give you access to the releases page? I would rename the 0.50 release to Win/Linux and add it there.

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I believe if you add me as a collaborator, that would work. Valve did that for me on the SteamOS tracker to push to the wiki. Heading to bed. It I'll try to add them in the morning. Based on my tests, this archive should work. Ill farm some feedback as well.

On August 12, 2016 11:47:01 PM EDT, Axel Gneiting [email protected] wrote:

I guess so. Is there a way that I can give you access to the releases
page? I would rename the 0.50 release to Win/Linux and add it there.

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On August 12, 2016 11:47:01 PM EDT, Axel Gneiting [email protected] wrote:

I guess so. Is there a way that I can give you access to the releases
page? I would rename the 0.50 release to Win/Linux and add it there.

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Linux binary added to releases page for 0.50. Tested on 2 fresh machines to ensure LD_LIBRARY_PATH and such are used correctly. Tested on Ubuntu/Debian/ArchLinux.

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Of note, the package is ~ 7 MB due to the amount of libraries linked and reported by ldd. On Debian systems, this would have required only a 1.6 MB package from testing with Ubuntu/Debian/SteamOS. However, obviously other systems may required the libraries.

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